Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-11
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small farms.
Eighty-four different languages and
dialects are spoken in New York city.
The Neao Orleans Picayune says that
it is lucky child that looks like its
rich aunt.
Newark. n. j., expended $500, 900 on
"a sewer. and now finds the scheme to
be failure.
Eighty-f.e per cent of the 1888
'ssuperhuous" women in Massachusetts
are widows.
George w. Gable, it is said, is about
to settle down in Boston as Bible
class teacher.
The whole length of mail routes in
opertion in the United States amounts
to 375, 200 miles.
An Englishman writes to Henry La
bouchere that he wants to enlist, but
is unable to do so because his teeth are
bad.
A church in Birmingham, Ala, has
female choristers, who wear tasteful
ly-designed SUPPLIES of Scotch lawn
and violet caps.
Mrs. A. B. Coulter, of Fairbanks,
Ala, made bed-quilt containing six
teen thousand pieces less than the size
of mans thumb-nail.
The largest nugget of silver yet OBJ
tanned was dug up in Arizona, and
weighed 43, 200 ounces, valued at the
same number of dollars.
The transcontinental railroad COM
panies give it out that sixty thousand
persons are booked for California
during the coming fall and winter.
A pleasant device for ornamentation
at French garden party was foun-
tain, at the base of which were blocks
of ice mingled with ferns and flowers.
A petrifed pine knot was curiosity
lately found in Georgia. 1t was about
one foot in length and had the shape
and appearance of an ordinary fat
knot.
A $4,000 granite monument recent
" erected in Calvary cemetery, New
York city, by a blind man bears the
inscription: ''To outlast the British
monarch.
Lumber is in great demand in San
Francisco, the supply not being equal to
the wants of all buyers. All coast
mills are running and new ones are
being built.
The geographical center of Provi-
dence, &. l., is occupied by marsh
| worth about 1000, 900. 1t is great
| and malaria
A well-known professor gave notice
that he could not meet his ''classes."
A wag deleted the SOP and made it
classes" The professor again deleted
the 81" and finished by having the
best of it.
Zachary Taylor's daughter, the
widow of Col. Bliss, is still living in
Winchester, Va, in good health and
well-preserved beauty. Her second
husband, Phil cambridge, died several
years ago.
Miss Daisy Garland, daughter of the
| Acknowledgement, will be one of the
| debutantes in Washington next winter.
She is handsome brunette, with bril-
liant eyes, black hair, olive complex
| ion, and languid manner.
President Timothy Dwight, of Yale,
has in many ways an exaggerated re-
semblanae to President James McCosh,
of Princeton. Both are gray, bald,
tall, and have the same scholarly
sto0p, sharp features, and gray side
whiskers.
The Princess Metternich is tall, thin
as Sarah Bernhardt, and painted like
a sign-pOst She has her preferences;
will not let anybody bore her, and
sometimes snubs Ambassadors at a
reception to chat pleasantly with a
popular tenor.
Senator Hearst says of San Fran
cisco: ''After travelling all over the
United States and going into nearly
every important city, [ give you my
word that no city q quarter the size of
this Except perhaps New Orleans) is
so far behind in the way of improve
ments.
Felix Pyat is a candidate for the
vacant seat in the French senate for
the department. of the Cher. Il shall
enter the senate" he writes, '"as a cart
| ridge of dynamite to blow up if / can
that obstruction to the republic, and
reduce the Luxembourg to the level of
the Tuileries."
Nine. Barrios, widow of the late
President of Guatemala, is a genuine
type of Southern beauty yet youthful
and charming. and when gorgeously
arrayed for swell reception strug-
giles under the weight of diamonds
worth S2,000,000 Of course she does
not lack adorers.
The son of Joshua r. Giddings, the
old Ohio abolitionist. lives atJefferson,
the county seat of Ashtabula county.
He practices law and runs Il farm, but
he takes very little interest in politics.
The son of Ben Wade lives in the same
town. He gives himself up to horses,
and lets politics alone.
The troops who followed the raiding
Apaches through the mountains OF
southern Arizona, recently, say that in
crossing the San Pedro valley the hos
tiles travelled nearly fifteen miles on
tip-toe to hide the trail, but the Indian
who accompanied the soldiers held the
track just the same.
Deafness is often caused by surf